I've been wanting to play a bit more with silhouette these days. Looking for pants that give the more voluminous silhouette to go with a tighter top/leather jacket, but hoping to avoid diaper butt since I don't find that practical. Kind of like sweat pants but avoiding the jersey texture. More futuristic cotton/polyester or even a finer wool? Some of spacepope's fits come to mind. What should I be looking at - Silent? Yohji?

I've been wanting to play a bit more with silhouette these days. Looking for pants that give the more voluminous silhouette to go with a tighter top/leather jacket, but hoping to avoid diaper butt since I don't find that practical. Kind of like sweat pants but avoiding the jersey texture. More futuristic cotton/polyester or even a finer wool? Some of spacepope's fits come to mind. What should I be looking at - Silent? Yohji?

I would avoid Silent. Most of the bottoms have guaranteed diaper butt because of the way the rear is cut, and they're generally made of the sort of jersey fabric it sounds like you want to avoid. Also not sure Yohji is right unless you want a lot of volume, though you can definitely find Yohji bottoms that aren't quite so large. But I say if you're going to go with some volume then go all the way. Makes for a really cool silhouette with a more fitted jacket like you're describing. This sort of thing:

Actually that SS12 set of style shots is one of my favorite they ever did because of all the Yohji pants they used. That Yohji season was so good. In fact, if anyone has some Yohji pants from SS12 they're looking to sell in size 2 feel free to message me (except the hakamas; those are too big).

You may also want to look at Comme des Garçons if you want an interesting poly or cotton fabric. And then a bunch of those brands like Lost & Found might work for you too. You could probably just go through the brand list at H Lorenzo and see what you find.

I've been wanting to play a bit more with silhouette these days. Looking for pants that give the more voluminous silhouette to go with a tighter top/leather jacket, but hoping to avoid diaper butt since I don't find that practical. Kind of like sweat pants but avoiding the jersey texture. More futuristic cotton/polyester or even a finer wool? Some of spacepope's fits come to mind. What should I be looking at - Silent? Yohji?

don't know what kind of 'voluminous' you're looking for but Vibskov Jetlag trousers have a pretty well cut and elegant silhouette. Slightly elongated rise, pleated and roomy seat/thigh with a taper at the knee to a slim but not skinny lower leg. Easy to wear with both slim and oversize stuff on top.

I have the AW13(?) version which was in tencel, feels super comfortable. I know they did a linen blend for this past season

thanks for recs guys. to clarify I'm thinking something evoking Asian martial art influences: pleated waist, relaxed throughout but no serious dropcrotch, no taper at bottom so it stays flowy. looked through hlorenzo and seems like I should keep an eye on old damir, yyph, christophe lemaire, ziggy chen